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Subject: CELLARS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OLD VERMONT CELLAR HOLE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To wander near a ruined home
Last Line: Of lilacs set in roses.
Subject(s): Cellars; Vermont; Basements


CELLAR STAIRS, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's rickety down to the dark.
Subject(s): Cellars; Basements


IN THE ROOT CELLAR, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is where you've ended
Last Line: Will thaw out, awakened by the loud spring waters
Subject(s): Cellars


IN THE ROOT CELLAR, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The parsnips, those rabbis
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Cellars


JOHN MOULDY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I spied john mouldy in his cellar
Last Line: Smiling there alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Cellars; Basements


LIMOGES, by VIRGINIA SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the root cellar
Last Line: By that elegance %rose-petalled
Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott
Subject(s): Cellars


MAN IN THE CELLAR UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MOONLIGHT, by AL GABOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: If he stands on a chair
Last Line: In the bare trees %rooted in the sky
Subject(s): Cellars; Men; Moon


PLATZPOEM: BASEMENT, by ALICIA RABINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Many drums inhabit this smoky basement, subdividing space/like ski poles...
Last Line: They lay it in its chair like a broom against the wall which holds the whole room up
Subject(s): Cellars; Rooms


ROOT CELLAR, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dim beam of the eveready
Last Line: Caressing your hair and hands
Subject(s): Cellars


ROOT CELLAR, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch
Subject(s): Cellars; Basements


ROOT CELLAR, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch
Last Line: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath
Subject(s): Cellars


THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there
Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism